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The Rijksmuseum’s Philips Wing gets a ’Modern Times’ reboot -
Architects Directory 2020: Fem, NetherlandsSet up in 2019 by Femke van de Voort, Fem Architects is a young, boutique office based in Amsterdam that caught our eye for its clever and sustainably minded residential work. Row House, in the city’s Klaprozenweg area, is one of the practice’s first built projects. The structure stands on the site of a former brick factory and the architect responded to this history by creating a fittingly utilitarian, robust, eco-friendly and affordable family home, featuring a façade clad in profiled Corten steel.
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Studio Libeskind’s reflective geometries shape Holocaust memorial in AmsterdamStudio Libeskind crafts National Holocaust Memorial of Names in Amsterdam, designing dramatic geometric shapes that carry the message of remembrance
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Shadow play: Koto Bolofo on fantasy, fashion, and his first show in the Netherlands -
Digital Innovation Think Tank at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam -
The Chabot Museum, Rotterdam -
A bright new age: the Rijksmuseum reopens after a 10 year renovation -
Serving the arts: Wim Pijbes introduces W* to the Museum Voorlinden -
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Meet the designer-activists using graphics to fight supermarket plastics -
The prejudices and politics behind the hoodieLou Stoppard examines the role of the hooded cotton jersey zip-up as a socio-political carrier in a new exhibition at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam
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Okay Studio exhibition at Galerie Vivid, Rotterdam -
Amsterdam's grand Felix Meritis unveils contemporary refresh by i29Dutch architecture studio i29 is behind the listed Felix Meritis building's interior restoration and redesign in Amsterdam, a scheme bringing together historical glamour and contemporary design sophistication and technology, while enriching the city's culinary and cultural scene
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Photographing the defiance and opulence of Europe’s contemporary Ballroom sceneIn his ongoing series, photographer Dustin Thierry charts the ‘emancipatory possibilities of expression’ in Ballroom culture across Europe
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Irma Boom goes 'Under Cover' at Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam -
Designers check into Amsterdam’s Lloyd Hotel for the sophomore edition of Mono Japan -
Jean Nouvel’s European Patent Office is inaugurated in The Hague -
De Bakkerswinkel — Rotterdam, Netherlands -
Leaving a trace: Bottle-Up tackles waste through craft in ZanzibarThe design initiative Bottle-Up made its debut during the current Dutch Design Week, presenting a new perspective on glass design. The project was initiated by Hubert and Elisabeth van Doorne, with the double goal of increasing sensibility on the waste situation in Zanzibar and offering a solution for recycling to the local population.
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Grey matter: Atelier Kempe Thill’s Antwerp housing draws on the city’s modernist legacy -
An industrial post-war era building in Rotterdam is home Héroine Restaurant and Bar, designed by Modiste Studio -
Michael Craig-Martin turns Covid-era objects into iconsIrish artist Michael Craig-Martin confronts a new age of consumer culture, putting his striking, bold-coloured spin on objects defining the times
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Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters inspires architect Julius Taminiau’s Dutch monument to rural lifeThe Potato Shed, a family house built on the site of a former farm, is a contemporary response to agricultural architecture and the landscape of The Netherlands, inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s austere 1885 painting
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Composing Neutelings Riedijk’s biodiversity museum in Leiden -
Remembering master joiner Ejnar Pedersen (1923-2020)Ejnar Pedersen, one of Danish midcentury modernism’s most prolific craftsmen, passed away last month, aged 97. To pay our respects, we bring you the following article, that was first published in the May 2014 issue of Wallpaper* (W*182)
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Dutch Design Week 2019 captures the zeitgeistWhat to expect from the 18th year of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, from social design to sustainable innovations
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Starbucks launches a coffee ‘laboratory’ in Amsterdam
